The 28th Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) returns to wine country from March 19-23, 2025, featuring a lineup of 39 narrative features, 16 documentaries, and 38 short films from over 21 countries alongside an array of filmmakers, actors, and culinary icons.
We are kicking off Women’s History Month with the official trailer for Audrey’s Children, the award-winning biopic film starring Game of Thrones alum Natalie Dormer (The Wasp) as Dr. Audrey Evans, the British-born American pediatric oncologist who was known as the ‘Mother of Neuroblastoma’ and one of the co-founders of the original Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia. She passed away on September 29, 2022 at the age of 97.
Magnolia Pictures debuted the official trailer for The Assessment, the science fiction thriller film starring Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel. Set in the future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple’s seven – day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare.
Cinema Guild has revealed the official trailer for You Burn Me (Tú me abrasas), the ‘reverie on love and mortality’ from Argentinian filmmaker Matías Piñeiro.
Roadside Attractions debuted the official trailer for The Surfer, the thriller film starring Nicolas Cage as a man returning to the beach of his childhood to surf with his son, but is drawn into a conflict with a group of powerful locals.
Seance directed by Vivian Kerr has won the Best Feature Film at the 19th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival in Beaufort, SC which wrapped on Sunday. Scottie Thompson also won Best Actress for her performance in the film as a Victorian woman in 1892 California, contemplating adultery, and is forced to take refuge from a storm at the home of her first husband and his unstable wife, who claims to be haunted by their dead child.
IFC Films shared the official trailer for The Rule of Jenny Pen, the horror thriller film starring Geoffrey Rush as a judge who finds himself in a nursing home after an unexpected health scare, where he encounters a bizarre resident (played by John Lithgow) hellbent on terrorizing the patients.
The SAG Awards spread the love around with no film winning more than one award.
Tyler Perry’s The Six Triple Eight walked away with the Outstanding Motion Picture at the 56th NAACP Image Awards, along with Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for Kerry Washington, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Ebony Obsidian.
The 49th Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) running March 27 – April 5, 2025, has revealed the year’s spotlight films, with For Worse, the directorial debut of actress Amy Landecker as Opening Night Film. The documentary Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore directed by Shoshannah Stern will screen as Centerpiece, and Love, Brooklyn directed by Amy Landecker as Closing Night Film.
